“I thought it was one of the worst commercials, in terms of what they were trying to do, that I’ve ever seen,” said Trump during an unscheduled call into MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” “They are making Obama look great. They are making him look like that’s the man we want to be president. I looked at that clip very closely, and actually, I couldn’t believe it.”

“It takes Obama’s perceived strength and turns it into a negative,” said Deutsch. “It shows that his celebrity makes him out of touch and it sets Romney out to be the fix-it, competent vanilla … vanilla is the new black, and it is compelling,” said Deutsch. “What celebrity means is, he’s not connecting to you.”

Trump disagreed so strongly, he felt compelled to phone in.

“I heard him [Deutsch] talking favorably about the ad that was put out essentially by the Republicans, and I thought it was a terrible ad. It made Obama bigger than life. It made him to be the super celebrity, which I don’t happen to think he is,” he said.

“You’re projecting yourself — because to you, [celebrity] is the dream, that’s the most amazing thing in the world,” Deutsch replied. “But to the average guy who is out of work or pissed off, they start to go, ‘Wait a second. What’s he doing? Yeah, he’s cool and everything, but I don’t want cool now. I want meat and potatoes.’”